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Janisse Ray
Sep. 11th, 2021 06:04 amJanisse Ray was the writer in residence for part of the time I was in grad school at Ole Miss. Weirdly, I didn't meet her then (although Josh did) but later when I took this job in Georgia. She came to speak at our institution, and later I spent a weekend at a writer's retreat on her farm in Baxley. Here's my write up of her talk.
The retreat was magical. She and her husband Raven live as sustainably as possible, growing and making and reusing as much of what they need as possible. She took us to her parents' junkyard featured in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and out to Moody Forest. We wrote and shared what we were writing. I cannot fathom why, but I didn't post about the retreat; all I can find on DW is a brief mention that I'm going. :(
Janisse is the real deal. She is utterly genuine. What you read in her books is exactly how she is in real life. She is very, very kind with not a speck of snobbery in her.
( Ecology and Moody Forest )
The retreat was magical. She and her husband Raven live as sustainably as possible, growing and making and reusing as much of what they need as possible. She took us to her parents' junkyard featured in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and out to Moody Forest. We wrote and shared what we were writing. I cannot fathom why, but I didn't post about the retreat; all I can find on DW is a brief mention that I'm going. :(
Janisse is the real deal. She is utterly genuine. What you read in her books is exactly how she is in real life. She is very, very kind with not a speck of snobbery in her.
( Ecology and Moody Forest )
